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Using CRISPR, scientists efficiently edit genome of viable human embryos

Some of the nation's leading scientists have long warned against such work, which was carried out by researchers at Oregon Health and Science University.

In a step that some of the nation’s leading scientists have long warned against and that has never before been accomplished, biologists in Oregon have edited the DNA of viable human embryos efficiently and apparently with few mistakes, according to a report in Technology Review.

The experiment, using the revolutionary genome-editing technique , was led by of Oregon Health and Science University. It went beyond previous experiments using

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